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10-Mar-06:
Fajr title for Omar ...

 

In a battle between two Egyptian teenagers in the final of the FAJR Squash International on Kish Island, it was the younger player Omar Mosaad who triumphed to claim the first ever PSA Tour title in Iran.

Mosaad, the 17-year-old second seed from Cairo, recovered from a game down to beat unseeded 19-year-old Ahmed Gamal Swaify in 43 minutes.

Swaify, also from Cairo and in only his second appearance in a PSA event, had reached his first final after beating four seeds in the event – including Hong Kong's top seed Wai Hang Wong in the quarter-finals.

Mosaad, a two-times British Junior U17 Open champion who is coached by former Australian international Anthony Hill, is celebrating his first PSA Tour title.

09-Mar-06:
Swaify stuns top
seed in Iran

Egypt's Ahmed Swaify, the sixteenth seed, caused a major upset in the quarter-finals of the Fajr International in Iran's Kish Feee Zone when he beat Hong Kong's top seeded Wai Hang Wong in straight games to move into the semi-finals.

Swaify meets Malaysia's fourth seed Timothy Arnold, while the other semi-final will be an all-Egyptian affair between Amr Ramzy Swelim and second seed Omar Mosaad.

"In the first game I played badly...I had many errors...In the second one, I could come back and take control of the game, and won it. "So I began to play well, and I could win the next two games, but I could find my good shots in the 4th...it was quite a good match..."

More from Kish
  
Thanks to Jos Aarts for
the photos from Kish ...

Omar Mosaad

Omar Mosaad

  Round One:
  [1] Wai Hang Wong (Hkg) bt [Q] S. Tahvildaran 11/3, 11/2, 11/2 (12 min)
  [9] Shahril Shahidan (Ind) bt Mohammad Nauman (Pak) 11/5, 10/12, 11/3, 11/2 (29 min)
  [16] Ahmed Gamal Swaify (Egy) bt [8] Roger Ngan (Hkg) 11/8, 11/9, 7/11, 12/10, 11/6 (62 min)
  [12] Tarek Momen (Egy) bt Yasin Amjad (Pak) 11/2, 11/4, 11/1 (17 min)

  [4] Tim Arnold (Mas) bt [Q] Sam Padbod 11/3, 11/4, 11/3 (16 min)
  [11] Joan Lezaud (Fra) bt [Q] Payam Ahmadabadi 11/0, 11/2, 11/2 (9 min)
  [6] Dick Lau (Hkg) bt M H Sanaei 11/1, 11/5, 11/2 (18 min)
  [10] Nafzahizam Adnan (Mas) bt [Q] Pooya Ahmadabadi 11/4, 11/5, 11/4 (18 min)

  [Q] Mohamad Hassan Jafari bt Mohammed Sagdehpour (Iri) 11/3, 11/4, 11/8 (15m)
  [7] Mohamed Elkeiy (Egy) bt [Q] SH Dolatshahi (IRI) 11/0, 11/0, 11/6 (13m)
  Matias Tuomi (Fin) bt [LL] A.ATAVI 11/3, 11/1, 11/8 (18m)
  [3] Amr Ramzy Swelim (Egy) bt Amir El Samihy (Egy) w/o

  [Q] AR Hajnassrallah bt [14] Andrea Capella (Ita) w/o
  [5] Muhd Nafiizwan Adnan (Mas) bt Anson Kwong (Hkg) 11/8, 11/13, 11/9 15/13, 16/14 (84m)
  Majid Rohani bt [15] [LL] Roshana 11/5, 11/5, 11/1 (24m)
  [2] Omar Mosaad (Egy) bt [Q] M Abrishami 11/0, 11/2, 11/1 (10m)

The qualifying draw takes place

Qualifying (06-Mar):

Payam Ahmadabadi  bye
S. Tahvildaran bt M.A. Atavi          12/10, 7/11, 11/7, 11/7, 11/3
A.R.  Hajnassrallah   bye
M.H. Jafari bt M. Tiznobik              11/0, 11/4, 11/8
Pooya Ahmadabadi bt M.A. Saedi   15/13, 11/7, 11/1
M. Abrishami   bye
S.H. Dolatshahi bt M.A. Roshana    11/7, 11/8, 11/7
S. Padbod  bye